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Risk and compliance: Business continuity
"Prepare for the unexpected and safeguard your operations with a robust business continuity plan, ensuring resilience and continuity in the face of disruptions or emergencies."
Ensuring your organisation is resilient enough to continue operating following an adverse event requires considerable forethought and preparation.
A well-designed business continuity plan will seek to limit the damage caused by, say, a flood in your server room or a ransomware attack, and ensure your staff can continue to work until your systems can be restored to normal.
Rather than try to anticipate and plan for all types of adverse event, our approach is to focus on your organisation’s key operational dependencies and the practical, cost-effective contingency arrangements that can reasonably be put in place.
We would then work with you to build a formal framework of business continuity procedures, agreeing protocols for the level of response required, and a schedule of responsibilities and actions for managers and staff to refer to in the event of an emergency or disaster.
Why Adapta
Our team of consultants is drawn from the voluntary sector and includes people who have held senior management positions in both large and small organisations. With our proven and practical approach, developed over many years of assisting non-profit organisations, we can guide you through the whole process taking into account your culture and capabilities as well as the technical aspects.
Clients
We have helped many charities, membership organisations and other non-profit organisations with their Business continuity projects. Below are examples of just a few of the organisations we have worked with.
What our clients say
Andy Murphy
Director of Finance and Business Support, WAGGGS
"Adapta were quick to understand our issues and needs going forward and their knowledge and expertise was evident in their suggestions. I would not hesitate to recommend Adapta Consulting to any organisation seeking independent IT support or advice."
James Drever
Head of IT, Field Studies Council
"The Field Studies Council received excellent support from Adapta on this project, and the resulting proposal was strongly supported by its trustees and is now being implemented."
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Paul Sypko
Consultancy Director
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Paul is a highly experienced technology and management consultant with nearly 30 years’ experience leading high-impact consultancy engagements. With a senior-level...
Steve
IT Security, Risk & Compliance Associate
Steve began his interest in IT when he gate-crashed a school computer class, where he found it interesting so he signed up to the O level course Learning to program using punched...
Paul Sypko
Consultancy Director
“Charities and not-for-profit organisations are demanding users of information systems and digital technology. There’s a clear sense of purpose in the sector, and that shows in how technology is used to achieve impact and obtain real value. Not-for-profits often hold massive amounts of data, much of which is highly sensitive in nature, and they engage in many different ways with a very broad range of stakeholders. Whether it’s using digital channels to support personalised ‘user journeys’ or high-impact campaigning and engagement, or diligently taking care of back-office systems to deliver an efficient and cost-effective service, it’s great to be working in a sector where technology can be used so effectively to make a tangible difference to people's lives.”
Paul is a highly experienced technology and management consultant with nearly 30 years’ experience leading high-impact consultancy engagements. With a senior-level CIO/CTO background, he specialises in technology strategy, digital solutions, interim leadership, technical leadership, infrastructure and systems management, service reviews, information security, data protection, supplier management, and the selection and oversight of technology partners. Much of Paul’s work has been in the not-for-profit sector, though he also brings significant commercial experience. Before co-founding Adapta, he held senior roles at sector specialists Sayer Vincent, Crowe UK, and BlueSpark Consulting. Earlier in his career, he worked at strategy consultancy Strategy& (now part of PwC), where he received a Professional Excellence Award for leading a large-scale digital transformation and innovation programme. Paul has delivered assignments for over 100 organisations, including charities, membership bodies, trade unions, royal colleges, professional institutes, and commercial businesses. His recent clients include ActionAid UK, the Bank Workers Charity, the British Medical Association, Central YMCA, Crisis, Chichester Cathedral, Girlguiding Scotland, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, the National Children’s Bureau, Maudsley Charity, Westminster Abbey, and the Woodland Trust. His core areas of expertise include strategic planning for technology platforms and digital tools, service reviews and outsourcing, commercial contract negotiation, project planning, data protection, technical leadership, and procurement of business-critical systems such as CRM. Paul is a state-educated graduate of the University of Oxford, where he was awarded a scholarship to study Economics and Management at St John’s College and the Saïd Business School. A Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of both the Institute of Consulting and the Institute of Leadership and Management, he is also a Certified Business Advisor and a member of the British Computer Society’s IT Leaders Forum. He played a key role in shaping the Chartered Management Consultant award, launched in 2020, and continues to support those working towards professional recognition. Outside work, he chairs the board of trustees for a local Scout group and remains committed to helping others realise their potential.
“Paul is enthusiastic, dedicated and a highly capable person who works with such integrity and to a high standard. I very much value Paul’s support and guidance and know I can always rely on him.”
Steve
IT Security, Risk & Compliance Associate
Steve began his interest in IT when he gate-crashed a school computer class, where he found it interesting so he signed up to an O-level course learning to program using punched paper-tape! After repeating the course, with some extra items, he obtained his A level and degree in Computer Studies and went on to work for ICL, being part of the ICL Health team developing applications for the NHS. Ten years at ICL and he decided to set up his own business and went freelance, working on projects for local and central government, and many utility companies, including being part of the architecture team for BT's five 1,000 seat call centres handing the "Friends and Family" project in the mid 90's; and being part of the start-up business that became 118118 in the early 2000's. More recently Steve has concentrated on the Information Security aspects of the organisations, finding his 40 years of IT experience a great benefit when dealing with today's IT environments. Since 2014 Steve has been involved in Information Security and the ISO27001 standard, having achieved over 20 successful certifications in that time. The approach he uses is to keep it simple so that staff understand the requirements and what they need to do, without the jargon and waffle. Steve also has considerable experience of Business Continuity Planning, having recently assisted organisations such as the Aquaculture Stewardship Council with ensuring the resilience of their operations and infrastructure. Steve has been a full member of the British Computer Society (BCS) since 1987, a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng) since 1995, Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP) since 2004, a member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) since 2015 and a Core member of Cyber Wales since 2015. In his spare time he is involved with the local branches of Cancer Research, Talking Newspapers, Rotary and is a founder member of Electric Vehicle Association of Wales.
Phil Durbin
Former Head of Corporate Systems, Salvation Army
"Unlike many consultants, Adapta won’t tell you what you expect to hear. They will be very honest and challenging and, even if some of what they say is uncomfortable to hear, it means you end up getting better advice."